The Unification Church said Monday it was puzzled by reports of alleged resentment held against the group by the man suspected of assassinating former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
"There is a big distance between having resentment toward our association and killing former Prime Minister Abe," Tomihiro Tanaka, the Japan office chairman of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, told a news conference Monday. "We struggle to understand why this happened. We will cooperate fully with the police to reveal his motive," he added.
Who is Tetsuya Yamagami? What we know about the man suspected of shooting Shinzo AbeTanaka also denied that Abe's grandfather had any role in expanding the Unification Church, saying Kishi did not take"any special measures or have any special influence on the spread of the religion at all.
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